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For some homebound seniors, isolation can be unbearable. But as people grow old that is sometimes exactly what happens as friends and family pass away. The Little Brothers—Friends of the Elderly is a volunteer-based organization that attempts to break that isolation, bringing services to seniors with the warmth and care of a friend. Little...

Drive around Boston on Sept. 1 and you’ll witness plenty of misery on the faces of college students moving. And moving only gets harder once you start cashing Social Security checks. But the Springhouse Retirement Community is attempting to ease that process for seniors with a program that has coordinators help them transition from...

The Jamaica Plain-based elder services agency Ethos recently won a major award—including $10,000 in cash and $100,000 in capacity-building help—for its AgeWell West Roxbury program from the nonprofit consulting organization Root Cause. “This is an amazing opportunity for Ethos AgeWell West Roxbury to gain greater visibility for our work with the older adult population,...

HYDE SQ.—OGO Gallery, a temporary “pop-up” art exhibition space, is debuting today in a vacant storefront at 405 Centre St. The gallery is the brainchild of real estate agent and artist Eileen Taylor, who saw a chance to highlight artists while showing off a donated space. “There are a million people out there who...

By John Ruch and Seth Daniel, Gazette Staff Steven Tompkins is the new sheriff in town, and aims to hold the job as Suffolk County’s top jailer for years to come. But, he said in a recent interview at the Gazette office, he is also working hard to put himself out of business with...

Jamaica Plain’s two new associations for local, independent businesses are committed to working together and even possibly even joining into one group in the future, their leaders said in a joint interview at the Gazette office. The two also joked about the perception of two competing indie business associations, saying they would stage a...

The opaque, top-down decision-making at Martha Eliot Health Center that is kicking out 5,000 adult patients and putting future service details up in the air has left the neighborhood speculating about what is really going on. The Gazette was among those left guessing, and last month, we guessed wrong in this space when we...

It is great news that City Councilor John Connolly will run for mayor. Whether incumbent Mayor Thomas Menino runs again or comments from some other prominent role in civil life, this competition of ideas guarantees a serious discussion of Boston’s present and future. The highly competitive mayoral race in 2009 was one of the...

As a clarification to your Feb. 15 editorial (“Health center changes a sick idea”) regarding the closure of the adult primary care services at the Martha Eliot Health Center (MEHC), the decision to end patient care for adults at MEHC was made solely by Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), which owns and operates MEHC. It...